Graft-versus-host disease causes broad suppression of hematopoietic primitive cells and blocks megakaryocyte differentiation in a murine model.

Cytopenia and delayed immune reconstitution with acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) indicate a poor prognosis. However, how donor-derived cell hematopoiesis is impaired in aGVHD is not well understood. We addressed this issue by studying the kinetics of hematopoiesis and the functions of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in an aGVHD model with haplo-MHC-matched murine bone marrow transplantation. Although hematopoiesis was progressively suppressed during aGVHD, the hematopoietic regenerative potential of donor-derived hematopoietic stem cells remains intact. There was a dramatic reduction in primitive hematopoietic cells and a defect in the ability of these cells to generate common myeloid progenitors (CMPs) and megakaryocyte/erythrocyte progenitors (MEPs). These effects were observed along with a concomitant increase in granulocyte/macrophage progenitors, suggesting that differentiation into MEPs is blocked during aGVHD. Interestingly, cyclosporine A was able to partially reverse the hematopoietic suppression as well as the differentiation blockage of CMPs. These data provide new insights into the pathogenesis of aGVHD and may improve the clinical management of aGVHD. Copyright © 2014 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Yan Lin, Xiaoxia Hu, Hui Cheng, Yakun Pang, Libing Wang, Lin Zou, Sheng Xu, Xiaomeng Zhuang, Chuanhe Jiang, Weiping Yuan, Tao Cheng, Jianmin Wang. Graft-versus-host disease causes broad suppression of hematopoietic primitive cells and blocks megakaryocyte differentiation in a murine model. Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 2014 Sep;20(9):1290-300

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